Ex-BSP MP's son who brandished gun at 5-star hotel surrenders

Ashish Pandey a former BSP MPs son who is accused of brandishing a pistol in the foyer of a fivestar hotel here surrendered before a Delhi court Thursday and was remanded to oneday police custodyAshish who has been dodging the arrest despite joint efforts by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police appeared in the Patiala House Courts here and moved a plea before Metropolitan Magistrate Neetu Sharma seeking to surrenderWhile the accused alleged frameup and media trial in his plea the police sought Ashishs fourday custodial interrogation on various grounds including that it needed to quiz him to unravel the truth and he has to be taken to Lucknow for effecting recovery of weapon he brandishedThe court considered rival submissions and allowed the Delhi police to quiz Ashish the son of former Bahujan Samaj Party BSP lawmaker Rakesh Pandey in custody for one dayDuring the brief hearing the counsel representing the police said The accused is from Lucknow Weapon has to be recovered to verify whether he has a license for the gun or not His custody is required to know whereabouts of other accused and to recover the weapon ie pistolAdvocate S P M Tripathi appearing for Ashish said the custodial interrogation was not required as police already knew that he possessed a licensed gun and he was being framed only because that his father was a politicianThe police knows that the gun has a licence I am not required We are ready to provide the gun He is not involved in previous cases This is only because the father of the accused was a politician and the incident was hyped by media No notice was served to the accused and nonbailable warrant was issued malafidely Fourday police custody is not required he saidThe application for surrender said that Ashish the son of former Bahujan Samaj Party BSP lawmaker Rakesh Pandey has been wrongly framed in the FIR and has been subjected to media trialIt further said Ashish is ready to submit before the court voluntarily and the police may be directed to take him into custody if requiredThe court had Wednesday issued a nonbailable warrant NBW against Ashish Pandey for brandishing a pistol at guests and threatening them in the foyer of a fivestar hotel hereA video of the incident that occurred early on October 14 went viral on social media resulting in public outrage It prompted the police to step in and launch a hunt for the accused who had gone missing after the incidentAn FIR was filed on October 16 at R K Puram police station under various provisions of the IPC and the Arms Act relating to criminal intimidation and misuse of fire armsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever